Just wanted to post second day observations for breaking in my XV Ultra.

Top end is still a bit hot, but not as much and seems more controlled.

More detail and even delicate and quiet detail is available.

Bass has is more present and I am actually hearing more and deeper bass on songs that I know because of the cable.

The organic whole presentation of music such as tone and timber seem right to me. I hear a fullness and richness that goes beyond the XV 2, so from my mind there is a definate improvement.

Thus far I am very happy with this cable and think it is very good in and of itself and for the price is a very good value. Probably have another day to break in. I've read it takes about 4 days to break in fully. I have mine hooked up to my Wadia i170 and leave my iPod in and playing all of the time on shuffle so I'm thinking it would only take me two days before everything settles down.

But not the adapter, it is a way to sell it, course a lot of users don`t solder out there connectors in the cases of there devices.

If you take the cable with both ends full BNC i think you got a good way to make it work.

But with those adapters ... i wont recomment it, it will give reflections i am 100% sure of that it brings mismatches

I make bnc connectors into DACs and cd players

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This is a phenomena that happens only at higher frequencies.

In consumer products the load is 75 ohm and in military it's 50 ohm.
So, when you have a cable that goes from your transport to DAC,
everything must be 75 ohm, this includes the female RCA connectors,
male RCA connectors and the coax cable itself.

If one of these components is not true 75 ohm part of the signal will
reflect, but only at high frequencies, like the ones digital signals are
transmitted in.

If the cable is 75 ohm and the connector is 70 ohm only a small
fraction will reflect, however if the cable is 75 ohm and the RCA is
32 ohm (which is typical for most expensive/fancy so called audiophile
RCA connectors out there) significant part of the signal will reflect.

First, this reflection makes the signal weaker and second, the
reflection can cause an avalanche effect where it disturbs the signals
behind it.

This is all very bad for an instrumentation type cable.

Most RCA connectors are 32-40 ohm. At high frequencies, the
shape of the connector and the thickness of dielectric will determine
the impedance. That is why it's so hard to make RCA connectors 75
ohm, their shape and conductor spacing prevent this. BNC connectors
are a different story, they can easily be made to be 75 ohm.

FYI, Stereovox cables take a very very long time to fully break in.....

Meaning it will only get better and better....the bass is thin-ish and the highs are slightly hot, but over time the cable is absolutely neutral and lets everything through.

In contrast the Oyaide 75ohm cable I have is warm, no matter what source its connected too. Many see this as being more analog because it makes the sound of their hot-digital gear sound better...more smoothed out. Fact is Oyaide is colored....Stereovox is not. The Stereovox cable has less and less of a sonic signature over time, if you connect a hot-digital Dac to it you get a hot-digital sound, connect a warmer source you get a warmer sound, I can clearly hear the sonic attributes to every Dac I have used the Stereovox cable with...

FYI, Stereovox cables take a very very long time to fully break in.....

Meaning it will only get better and better....the bass is thin-ish and the highs are slightly hot, but over time the cable is absolutely neutral and lets everything through.

In contrast the Oyaide 75ohm cable I have is warm, no matter what source its connected too. Many see this as being more analog because it makes the sound of their hot-digital gear sound better...more smoothed out. Fact is Oyaide is colored....Stereovox is not. The Stereovox cable has less and less of a sonic signature over time, if you connect a hot-digital Dac to it you get a hot-digital sound, connect a warmer source you get a warmer sound, I can clearly hear the sonic attributes to every Dac I have used the Stereovox cable with...

its digital 0101010101010101010101010101010101010101011011010110101011010101010101010 cant be warm